Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 22 Mar 2001 22:20:22 +0000 (GMT) | From | "James A. Sutherland" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Prevent OOM from killing init |
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On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, Patrick O'Rourke wrote: > > > Since the system will panic if the init process is chosen by > > the OOM killer, the following patch prevents select_bad_process() > > from picking init. > > One question ... has the OOM killer ever selected init on > anybody's system ?
Well, I managed to get the OOM killer killing init once; OTOH, I had just broken MM completely (disabled freeing of pages entirely!) so that doesn't really count, I think :-)
> I think that the scoring algorithm should make sure that > we never pick init, unless the system is screwed so badly > that init is broken or the only process left ;)
If the system is that badly screwed, killing init is probably the right thing to do, since this should then cause a panic, and thus a reboot if the machine is so configured?
James.
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